Families pressured to stay silent, with at least 24 executions reportedly taking place since March amid internet blackout Middle East crisis – live updates Families pressured to stay silent, with at least 24 executions reportedly taking place since March amid internet blackout Middle East crisis – live updates Iran is carrying out near-daily executions of prisoners in secrecy and, in some cases, refusing to hand the bodies of the dead to their families, according to rights groups and sources